Bigger droughts, more frequent flooding, more devastating storms — these are some of the effects that climate change is already having on our planet. And farmers, many of them small, family growers in...

Advances in understanding the genetic makeup of plants could ultimately help to produce more resilient, higher-yielding crops, the head of French seed company Limagrain said, with the potential to end...

Advances in understanding the genetic make-up of plants could ultimately help to produce more resilient, higher-yielding crops, the head of French seed company Limagrain said, with the potential to en...

French farmers from the region around Marseille agreed to lift their barriers blocking access to part of the port in Marseille after obtaining a meeting with a Prime Ministerial advisor to discuss the...

French dairy giant Danone may have to wait until 2018 to take its $545 million claim against the Fonterra Group to trial after its application to lift a "positively unfair" stay on proceedings was dis...

Angry French farmers handed out free fruit and vegetables to all comers in Paris on Wednesday as they called for "food patriotism" to save their livelihoods. The Local went to Place de la République t...

A coalition representing Europe’s agriculture and food industries has called on the EU to boost innovation and jobs within the sector, which has come under pressure following Russia's ban on EU food i...

The French government said Wednesday that it would provide aid for the country's farmers, in a bid to appease fruit and vegetable producers whose frustration with falling revenues has culminated in vi...

On Aug. 7, trucks carrying French cheese were turned away at the Russian border and forced to make a 1,240-mile return trip with fast-ripening cargoes of Brie, Camembert, Roquefort and other delicacie...

The dairy industry in the European Union is on the cusp of a massive shake-up. Come April 2015, a quota system that has limited milk production in member states for nearly 30 years is to be scrapped. ...

The average cow drops between 10 and 12 dung pads (also known as “pats”) every day and just one of those cow pads can produce up to 3,000 flies in a fortnight. With more than 28 million cattle in Aust...

The European Union next week will start a program to compensate farmers particularly hard hit by Russia's ban on imports of European fruit and vegetables, the first step in what will likely be a broad...

This year seems to be atypical for agriculture in the French region Île-de-France. With no less than 11.9 million inhabitants, or 19% of the national population, one could easily think that agricultur...

Danone was buying a 40 percent stake in Brookside, east Africa’s top dairy producer, as part of plans to expand in new markets, the French food group said on Friday, at a time when growth is weak in E...

France's seed industry is under pressure to help boost the protein content of wheat as the European Union's largest exporter of the grain looks to safeguard sales overseas and to its own bakers and an...

French farmers are having to lock up everything from their sheep and produce to fuel and tractors as thieves are increasingly targeting the places that produce the ingredients for France’s famous culi...